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To: Sedohr Nod who wrote (706697)	10/10/2005 12:58:00 PM
From: cirrus	Respond to of 769670

Google is great. Here are the details. You're right, though, the odds of getting arrested are virtually nil. Still, that a legislature would pass such laws... I don't understand homosexuality, but do know that I don't want any legislature wasting my tax dollars to even pass such absurd invasions of privacy. The courts are correct, IMHO, to call them unconstitutional. On the face of it, the Texas case — Lawrence and Garner v. Texas — is outrageous. On September 17, 1998, sheriff’s deputies in Houston, Texas, arrested Lawrence and Garner in the former’s apartment and charged them with violating the state’s sodomy statute. The police had entered Lawrence’s home because a homophobic neighbor, trying to get the two openly gay men in trouble, had called the police claiming that a man with a gun was in the apartment. (The neighbor was later arrested and prosecuted for filing a false police report.) Once in the apartment, the police discovered the two — now very startled — men engaged in either oral or anal sex (no one will say which, specifically) and they did what any good Texas police officers would do: they arrested them. Both men were jailed overnight and eventually convicted of a Class C misdemeanor and fined $200 each (the court could have fined them up to $500). bostonphoenix.com